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- Actor Paul Newman dies at 83 - Los Angeles Times
Paul Newman, the legendary movie star and irreverent cultural icon who created a model philanthropy fueled by profits from a salad dressing that became nearly as famous as he was, has died. He was 83. Newman died Friday at his home near Westport ...
- Qingdao, China: A six-pack of surprises (Newsday)
Millions of Chinese sun seekers annually visit Qingdao, the beach capital of northern China. Olympic yachting events will take place there this summer, but that's not the only thing that makes Qingdao famous.
- Palestinian poet was voice for exiles - Canoe.ca
Palestinian poet was voice for exilesCanoe.ca, Canada - Aug 10, 2008By AP GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP -- Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died yesterday in ...
- A Modern Mass With Notes of Messiaen - New York Sun
A Modern Mass With Notes of MessiaenNew York Sun, United States - 4 hours agoThe fast opening section was divided between bouncy choral writing and odd meanderings at the organ, unfolding tendrils of surrealistic poetry disappearing ...
- Gregg Barrio's Theater of the Repressed, Recovered, and Revolutionized - San Antonio Current
San Antonio CurrentGregg Barrio's Theater of the Repressed, Recovered, and RevolutionizedSan Antonio Current, tx - 2 hours agoUntil recently, the same was true of Barrios’s other theatrical works, even as his poetry received early recognition with the 1982 publication of his first ...
- Hyde Park/University Of Chicago - MetroMix
The University of Chicago Press hosts its first public sale in more than 20 years. Browse more than 20,000 hardcovers and paperbacks priced at $5 each, ranging in genre from anthropology to poetry to zoology. The author, educator, HBO Def Poet and ...
- Rushdie traces the roots of his latest award-winning tale (The Charlotte Observer)
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India's Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away. Here, guides spin questionable tales of the emperor playing hide-and-seek with his beautiful queens. And here, within the parched landscape of the ghost city, author Salman Rushdie stood ...
- REVIEW: Woodard's 'Pretty Fire' still burns with new storyteller - North County Times
REVIEW: Woodard's 'Pretty Fire' still burns with new storytellerNorth County Times, CA - 1 hour ago"Pretty Fire" is shot through with life lessons, beautiful poetry, gospel music and honest recollections, and enhanced by Woodard's mesmerizing ...
- 'Read in' offers opportunity for poetry lovers - TriVallyCentral
What better, more appropriate locale for a poetry "read in" than the Noah Webster House, where last Friday evening amateur and professional writers, poesy lovers and curious onlookers settled in to listen to homegrown, West Hartford poetry at its ...
- P.D. James - Variety
More Articles: It's a bit of a mystery to acclaimed crime novelist P.D. James just how she's managed to keep poetry-loving Scotland Yard detective Commander Adam Dalgliesh on the case in her books since 1962. "Somehow I've been very lucky that after ...
- Truly, madly, deeply (The Australian)
POETRY doesn't matter to most people. They go about their business as usual, rarely consulting their Shakespeare, William Wordsworth or Robert Frost. One has to wonder if poetry has any place in the 21stcentury, when music videos and satellite television offer daunting competition for poems, which demand a good deal of attention and considerable analytic skills as well as some knowledge of the ...
- Tango Café fighting for its existence - Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle
Tango Café fighting for its existencePittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, USA - 5 hours agoPetruy has hosted art exhibits for local artists, let musicians come and play their new songs and been the home to constant poetry readings - all for free. ...
- 'Netlage': A New Way to Communicate - OhmyNews International
'Netlage': A New Way to CommunicateOhmyNews International, South Korea - 29 minutes agoPerhaps we might make an addition to Netlage. At the same time, let us not accept symbol over substance, data over poetry.
- Eritrean Cultural Bonanza Ended - Shaebia
Eritrean Cultural Bonanza EndedShaebia, Eritrea - 11 hours ago... in debating, poetry and short story writing, traditional sports and other competition were awarded prizes by Mr. Saleh Meki, the Minister of Health. ...
- Flickspicks for Thursday, July 31 - News & Observer
Flickspicks for Thursday, July 31News & Observer, NC - 47 minutes agoTHE WACKNESS --The tale of a teen in New York in 1994 (Josh Peck), spending his last summer before college selling dope, trading it with his shrink (Ben ...
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